Comic #7162: hungers

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Do you think there are fundamental emotional states, like sad, happy, disgusted? And then all the more complex states are just combinations." Person 2: "Yes, but those aren’t the fundamentals."

Panel 2: Person 2: "Emotion is like color. There are three primary states: angry, horny, hungry."

Panel 3: Person 1: "You can build up states like hangry, harngry, horngry, and so on. Higher level emotions are just more complex arrangements." (Shows a Venn diagram with categories: Hungry, Angry, Horny, and Normal)

Panel 4: Person 1: "What about awe? Joy? Fear?"

Panel 5: Person 2: "Before modern neuroscience, it was possible to believe those were atomic feelings. Turns out that sorrow for example is just 1746HU14HO. Love is 143HU47HO. Neutral affect is a stable 3A3HU3HO."

Panel 6: Person 3: "Whoever said simplicity is beauty was dead wrong." Person 1: "Well, they were probably horngry at the time."